{"id":22182,"date":"2017-11-06T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T00:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22182"},"modified":"2017-11-07T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:25:05","slug":"snow-buntings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22182","title":{"rendered":"Snow Buntings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One does not get to see Snow Buntings every year. Indeed, when you do see them around the Lake, it is likely to be for a short time in the fall. Even then, they are seen from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Snow Buntings breed in the high Arctic and seem to spend the winter well to the south of us. That they pass through our region now and then is a delight. The last time I saw them was <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9026\">four years ago<\/a>. Curiously at that time, they were within metres of where they appeared in the last two days.<\/p>\n<p>Snow Buntings forage on the surface for grass and seeds.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22186\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/snowbunting171106bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They do not forage alone, but in groups.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22184\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/snowbunting171105bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They foray in flocks of a dozen or more and frequently fly to check adjacent locations.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22185\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/snowbunting171105as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only do they forage in groups, they fly in groups.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/snowbunting171106bsdmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here they go again. We may see them again in a few years.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22187\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/snowbunting171106as2DMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 One does not get to see Snow Buntings every year. Indeed, when you do see them around the Lake, it is likely to be for a short time in the fall. Even then, they are seen from a distance. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22182"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22196,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22182\/revisions\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}